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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix PR c++/16117
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3gmrc1r.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22S7OO-HqYXyreH1ueKNztA1M6yfyU2xtxQ64vup+NbezQ@mail.gmail.com>	(Doug Evans's message of "Mon, 4 Nov 2013 15:04:33 -0800")

>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

Doug> Do we need a NEWS entry for the change in behaviour?

I don't think so.

Doug> Also, and this is just for discussion's sake,
Doug> I wonder if we'll ever need to handle nested quoting some day (blech :-)).

Let's just not.

Doug> Can you add text to indicate "quoting" here means single-quotes *only*?

I'll add a link.

Doug> Is 'class'::member intended to work? (static member or whatever)
Doug> [It works today, but I didn't check if that's intended.  I presume it is.]
Doug> If so, maybe a test to verify that still works as well?

I think it's probably better to leave it undetermined.

On the one hand, I don't want to implement rejecting it.
I think that's too harsh.

On the other hand, defining it removes any flexibility in the future.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-05 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-04 22:21 Tom Tromey
2013-11-05  2:34 ` Doug Evans
2013-11-05 17:44   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-11-05 19:52     ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-05  9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-05 17:29   ` Tom Tromey
2013-11-15 15:54 ` Tom Tromey

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